Towards a quantum theory of de Sitter space

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Published 1 December 2006 • Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Tom Banks et al JHEP12(2006)004 DOI 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/004

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1 Department of Physics and SCIPP, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, U.S.A.

2 Department of Physics and NHETC, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08540, U.S.A.

3 Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, 1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands

4 Department of Physics and SCIPP, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, U.S.A.

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  1. Received 15 September 2006
  2. Accepted 5 November 2006
  3. Published

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Abstract

We describe progress towards constructing a quantum theory of de Sitter space in four dimensions. In particular we indicate how both particle states and Schwarzschild de Sitter black holes can arise as excitations in a theory of a finite number of fermionic oscillators. The results about particle states depend on a conjecture about algebras of Grassmann variables, which we state, but do not prove.

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